Basil Clarke

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1913-09-26 (91 years old)

Deathday

2004-11-28

Place of Birth

Hackney, London, England, UK

Basil Clarke

Biography

Basil Clarke (September 26, 1913 - November 28, 2004) was an English-New Zealnder actor of the stage, film and television who at 86 won the best actor award at the Tropfest 2000 short film festival. Clarke was an actor who over his long life had three distinct careers and who never retired, remaining on his agent's books until the day he died.

Acting

1976

1984

Where the Green Ants Dream

as Judge Blackburn

1997

Oscar and Lucinda

as Elderly Parishoner

1989

1999

Praise

as Footless Old Man

1992

Resistance

as Starkweather

1988

Young Einstein

as Charles Darwin

1984

1972

The Love Box

as Old Man

1979

1989

The Blood of Heroes

as Red City Overlord

1994

Muriel's Wedding

as Funeral Priest

1998

They

as Four

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